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Beggary and Theatre in Early Modern England (Paperback)
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Beggary and Theatre in Early Modern England (Paperback)
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This title was first published in 2003. In this new socio-cultural
study of the history of the theatre in early modern England, author
Paola Pugliatti investigates the question of why, in the Tudor and
early Stuart period, unregulated and unlicensed theatrical
activities were equated by the English law to unregulated and
unlicensed begging. Starting with English vagrancy statutes and in
particular from the fact that, from 1545 on, players were listed as
vagrants, the book discusses from an entirely new perspective the
reasons for the equation, in the early modern mind, of beggary with
performing. Pugliatti identifies in players' aptitude for disguise
and in the fear raised by their proteiform skills the issues which
encouraged the assimilation of beggars and players; she argues that
at the core of provisions against vagrancy was an attempt to
marginalize people who, because of their instability in location
and role (that is, in their theatrical quintessence), were seen as
embodying potential for subversion. Placing the topic in a European
context and relying on the reading of primary documents in several
languages, Pugliatti discusses efforts to control beggary from
Justinian's Codex to seventeenth-century statutes, locates the
origin of anti-vagrancy and antitheatrical writings in anxieties
about idleness and disguise, and analyzes the ways in which various
kinds of representation demonized both beggars and players.
Finally, by carefully distinguishing between the traditions of
rogue pamphlets, conny-catching pamphlets and the picaresque, she
offers fresh readings of a number of texts which appear to have
been entirely disregarded by recent scholarship, such as pamphlets
by Walker, Harman, Greene and Dekker.
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